Hello there, welcome to News Out from the BBC World Service.
It's coming to you live from London with me, Sean Lay.
Well,
we're going to begin this hour in the United States where the White House has hit back after Democrats released three emails written by the late Geoffrey Epstein,
which mentioned Donald Trump.
Epstein, who died in prison while serving a sentence for sexually abusing young girls,
was once on friendly terms with Mr Trump.
One message refers to Trump spending hours at Epstein's house with someone described by Democrats as a victim of sex trafficking.
The White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt said the claims were a partisan attempt to smear the president.
It is not a coincidence that the Democrats leaked these emails to the fake news this morning ahead of Republicans reopening the government.
This is another distraction campaign by the Democrat in the liberal media,
and it's why I'm being asked questions about Epstein instead of the government reopening because of Republicans and President Trump.
The emails are the latest released by members of the House Oversight Committee.
Suha Subramaniam from Virginia is one of the Democrat committee members involved with that release and he denied they were playing politics.
I've said from the very beginning, I don't care if it's Democrats or Republicans involved in this.
I don't care how rich or powerful they are.
I just want to know how this happened, who was involved,
who covered it up and how it can never happen again.
or shortly after the Democrats published their emails,
thousands more pages of documents were released,